Blogging our way to Enlightenment?

Bits of News - Blogging our way to Enlightenment?: "Kant's view of enlightenment depends upon what he calls a distinction between public and private reasoning. The reasoning that someone uses for their own work say the reasoning of a priest as he attempts to preach to his congregation, or the reasoning of a physician practising on his patient, or even the reasoning of a lawyer in a courtroom can all be defined as private reasoning- their end is domestic- the security of life is ultimately what lies at the core of why that person is reasoning in that way. Without their stipends, the priest, lawyer or physician would be unable to eat- consequently their reasoning is private and domestic in its telos."

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Blogspot is hurting America

Blogspot is hurting America | A Whole Lotta Nothing: "Blogspot is currently broken. While it always aimed to be the place to get a free weblog, it has been the subject of various exploits and gaming.

Case in point: yesterday I got a porn spam that slipped through since the from: line was set to my own email, and amid the garbage text was a URL on blogspot. This URL:
http://trampling-high-heels3169.blogspot.com/

If you go there and check it out, it pretty much as the exact same text as the spam, but the URL leads to the spammer's real target site."

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The Strange World of Blogspot Spam Blogs

The Republic of Geektronica � Blog Archive � The Strange World of Blogspot Spam Blogs: "I’ve been cruising the Blogspot world lately looking for cool stuff that the bigger geeklogs might have missed (and I found some cool knitting sites [1, 2] as a result last time I did this). What I’ve found, though, is that a large percentage (maybe up to a third) of all Blogspot blogs are spam-logs - sites created to increase the Google ranking of some other site (which is itself usually a Google-spamming site). The ultimate purpose of these spamlogs is usually to drive traffic to a commission-paying pharmacy, pr0n, or casino site."

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BlogSkins.com: Blog Templates

BlogSkins.com: Blog Templates - Home: "BlogSkins is a community of blog template designers, users, and friends. Whether you're looking for a fresh new design for your blog or wanting to share your hot designs with others, this is the place for you! A good place to start is with our top skins directory. Or, if you need more info, we have the place for you."

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Google launches public policy blog

ContraCostaTimes.com - Google launches public policy blog: " Google raised its profile as a political player Monday, launching a public policy blog (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com) that tackles several controversial issues, features presidential candidates and seeks user input.

The blog features video of the recent appearances of John McCain and John Edwards at the Mountain View headquarters, the congressional testimony of YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley and Google's Laszlo Bock on immigration and an analysis of the role of online politics in the French presidential election."

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Blogger Templates (Classic) at Gecko & Fly, Money, Blogger Templates

Blogger Templates (Classic) at Gecko & Fly, Money, Blogger Templates: "The blogger templates are all open source, you are allowed to customized the template as you like and remove the credit to geckoandfly if you want to, and just in case you’re wondering why there is no result when you use the “Google Search This Blog” feature, the reason being is that Google Search Engine has yet to index your blog. "

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How to Backup a Blogger Blog

How to Backup a Blogger Blog: "If you have a blog hosted on Blog*Spot and you've upgraded to the new version, there's an easy way to backup your blog.

This page lists the latest N posts from the blog:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N
Instead of N, type the number of posts. If your blog has less than 1000 posts, you can save this page:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000"

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Blogger Templates: 4.5 Million Blogspot Users are Lazy at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide

Blogger Templates: 4.5 Million Blogspot Users are Lazy at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide: "When you create a new blog on Blogger.com, Google provides a default blogspot template that has three links in the side bar - one link points to Google News while the other two links (Edit-Me) are just placeholders for the blogger to insert his own hyperlinks (see screenshot)

But bloggers are too busy creating content and don't bother changing these 'under construction' areas. There are 4.5 million pages hosted on blogspot.com that still have the Google News and Edit Me links [site:blogspot.com 'Google News' 'Edit-Me'"

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W. Bloggar

W. Bloggar is a freeware desktop blogging client that has been around for a while. You can publish, and supposedly, ping, without opening up your browser window. This makes everything quicker than going through the trouble of logging in to bloggar or Wordpress. If you publish a Blogger blog the installation/configuration is a little tricky since blogger started linking Blogs to Gmail accounts, the ways in which to do it are outlined here. It still doesn't format the post titles properly and it doesn't like there will be an update any time soon, so use at your own discretion if these things are important to you. It's still better than Qumana.

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